American Flag Tiered Shelf
Here is a cute project and it is just in time to make for the Fourth of July.
I'm repurposing one of the tiered shelves from the Target dollar spot. I think we all have one or at least I see a ton of them in the thrift stores.
So if you have one and you're tired of the look like I was then you'll love this fun idea to jazz it up a bit.
Take a look...
So like I said I began with a Target dollar spot tiered shelf. They were selling them for about $3.00 a few years back. Mine was collecting dust in the basement so today I'm giving it a new look.
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The first thing I did was to get rid of the junky shelves that were on the tray. They were a very thin wood-like material.
I replaced the shelves with pieces of repurposed rustic wood I had in the basement. I just traced the old shelves and cut out new ones.
I found this great product from Piglet's Closet. It is a rice paper image of an American flag that is the perfect amount of realistic looking.
I cut the flag in half which made it just about the perfect size for my shelves.
First, I painted the sides of the shelves with red, which I decided later was a little bright so I used dark wax on it in the end to tone it down.
When the paint dried I spread Mod Podge all over the top of the shelf and then laid the rice paper on and smoothed it down.
I used a rolling pin to be sure to have no bubbles but truthfully rice paper goes down super easily!
You will notice I left an overhanging edge of paper on both shelves.
When the Mod Podge dried I used a sanding block to sand off the overhanging edges of the rice paper flag.
Sanding left an edge that was slightly lighter than I wanted so I went around the edges with a distressing stamp pad.
Next, I did another coat of Mod Podge right over the top of the flag.
My next step was to go around the red edges with a dark wax to give it a darker look.
When the Mod Podge dried I screwed the shelves back into the rack and I was done.
It came out adorable! I tied a small ripped red striped cloth ribbon around the handle and called it a day!
This is the cutest tray now for the Fourth of July and for all summer long!
You can display small items on the shelf or use it for small desserts or appetizers.
READ MORE: AMERICAN FLAG IDEAS
I love the look of this flag and the rice paper was really easy to work with.
Update: This little cutie sold in a minute at the craft fair last weekend!
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Piglet's Closet provided me with the rice paper American flag, all opinions are my own.
